Thomson Rock

Thomson Rock
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height	900 m
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains	Batterbee Mountains
Coordinates	71 ° 26 '38 " S , 66 ° 54' 44" W Coordinates: 71 ° 26 '38 " S , 66 ° 54' 44" W

The Thomson Rock is an approximately 900 m high nunatak on the Rymill coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 5 km east of Mount Bagshawe on the eastern edge of the Batterbee Mountains .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after the geologist Michael Robert Alexander Thomson (* 1942), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey at the stations at Fossil Bluff and on Stonington Island from 1963 to 1966 .

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